The scale of last Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating impact of its tsunami on the costal region north of Tokyo will, almost certainly, cause reverberations across global supply chains.
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Billions of pounds have been saved by companies through supply chain improvements over the past year. So are you keeping up with your peers?
When I was a child, China was regarded in the West as a deeply threatening place – the home of Mao Tse-Tung and his particularly hard line form of communism.
Transport and logistics is the only sector in Europe in which greenhouse gas emissions are significantly increasing instead of decreasing, according to PE International, a German consultancy specialising in sustainability.
How long should a supply chain be? Can it ever be overly extended or just too complex? What’s that Goldilocks principle that makes a supply chain just right?
Last year the United States gave 505,010,020 Apple iPads to China – a handsome gift indeed, equal to 5,800 tons of pure gold.
Sales and operations planning is a critical process for most businesses – ensuring that corporate aims are put into effect. But just how good are companies at it? By Nick Allen.
Thanks to changing technology, concepts that were once regarded as innovative, high risk, too complex or simply too expensive are rapidly becoming standard – and that applies both to IT and logistics services.
With retailers experiencing a toxic mix of increasing commodity prices, rising fuel costs and a hike in VAT, the focus for most in 2011 will be on inventory reduction, cost containment and supply chain optimisation. By Nick Allen.
Amazon is now selling more books in electronic format than in paperback
